Has Nerve Pain Kept You Sidelined?

Boosting circulation can make your nerve pain fade away

Nerve pain changes everything. It affects every part of your life, including your ability to do things that you used to take for granted. Suddenly something as simple as showering, getting dressed, making meals, or going to bed comes wrapped in intense pain.

When you struggle with chronic nerve pain, your life becomes unpredictable. You don’t know how bad it might get when you wake up in the morning. You don’t know if it will ease up or get worse throughout the day.

This kind of pain makes it harder to enjoy your life. And you may feel like you’ll try anything to make it stop… but nothing really seems to work. That’s because most treatments leave out a key piece of the nerve pain puzzle. Your circulation. And addressing that can make all the difference.

Nerves 101

Your body is home to around 7 trillion nerves. They transmit electrical signals to communicate sensory and motor messages. Sensory signals tell you which sensations you’re feeling, like cold or hot or hunger or pain. Motor signals tell your muscles when and how to move, controlling activities like walking, breathing, and digesting.

Your central nervous system (CNS), the center of information processing, includes your brain and spinal cord.

Your peripheral nervous system (PNS) connects the rest of your body to your central nervous system. It collects and transmits data from the rest of your body from your face to your torso to your fingers and toes. The PNS delivers information about your environment to your brain.

And when there’s a glitch in your PNS, you’ll know it.

Nerve pain, also called neuropathy, most commonly affects the peripheral nerves in arms, legs, hands, and feet.

And more than 20 million American adults suffer with the devastating pain of peripheral neuropathy every day. Luckily, that pain can be overcome when you manage it the right way.

What Causes Nerve Pain?

Several things can cause peripheral neuropathy:

• Injury
• Infection
• Post-infection syndromes
• Toxins
• Autoimmune conditions
• Medications

The most common cause is diabetes, particularly if it’s not well-controlled. Consistently high blood sugar levels harm the tiny blood vessels that deliver oxygen and nutrients to the nerves. That causes damage to the nerve fibers and to their protective coating, the myelin sheath. When the myelin sheath is compromised, your nerves are exposed.

When that happens, your nerves can’t send the right signals. And the main signal they do send is pain.

Do I Have Nerve Pain?

Nerve pain isn’t like any other kind of pain. It can feel different ways at different times. You may feel burning, freezing, stabbing, shooting, or tingling pain. It can show up at any time, linger for weeks or disappear in minutes. It can feel like an electric shock or dull throbbing. So it can be hard to pin down what’s really happening.

Common symptoms of neuropathy include:

• Numbness
• Pins and needles
• Extreme sensitivity to touch
• Muscle weakness
• Trouble staying balanced
• Feeling like you have socks or gloves on when you don’t
• Difficulty holding things

All of these symptoms can make it hard to get through the day. Neuropathy can undermine your emotional well-being. You might feel anxious worrying about when the next strike might hit. You might be frustrated trying treatments that just don’t work.

But when you address nerve pain the right way, you’ll be amazed at how quickly it can be tamed.

How Boosting Circulation Quiets Nerve Pain

Many treatments for peripheral neuropathy don’t work, which can be very frustrating when you feel those shocking, burning, tingling sensations. That’s because the treatment can’t reach your nerves if your circulation is compromised. So rejuvenating circulation is the first step toward relieving nerve pain.

Poor circulation blocks healing, especially in the extremities neuropathy most often hits. When there’s reduced blood flow, fresh oxygen and nutrients don’t reach your nerves. Waste products and inflammation build up rather than being carried away. That slows or prevents healing and does even more damage to your already fragile nerves.

The idea that revitalizing stagnant circulation can reverse nerve pain isn’t anything new. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioners realized that thousands of years ago. Because with increased circulation, essential supplies can reach even the most remote nerves. And robust blood flow can successfully decrease inflammation, a key component of nerve pain.

For centuries, a TCM staple called Two Marvels Powder (Er Miao San) has been used to clear stagnation and restore the flow of chi (life force). In Western terms, the phellodendron and cang zhu atractolydes that make up Two Marvels Powder work to:

• Rejuvenate circulation
• Reduce inflammation
• Increase blood flow to the extremities

And once circulation is back on track, your nerves will receive a bounty of healing compounds, calming the pain today and helping you avoid it tomorrow.

Three Steps to Ease Nerve Pain Today and Tomorrow

You can say goodbye to nerve pain by taking three simple steps.

Step 1: Keep circulation moving. You need healthy blood flow to deliver everything your compromised nerves need for repair, maintenance, protection, and proper function. That’s why revitalizing circulation has to be the first step toward freedom from nerve pain. Time-tested Two Marvels Powder, powered by phellodendron and cang zhu atractolydes, helps restore vigorous circulation to every nerve in your body.   

Step 2: Repair and maintain healthy nerves. Damaged nerves need special support to rebuild and hold their structural integrity, especially the protected myelin sheath. Repairing and regenerating healthy nerve fiber calls for essential nutrients including

• B vitamins
• Alpha-lipoic acid
• Acetyl-L carnitine

Step 3: Protect your nerves. Keeping your nerves whole and healthy requires specific support, especially anti-inflammatory and antioxidant protection. Proven plant-powered compounds in Chinese skullcap and turmeric deliver that support. Chinese skullcap is well-known for its antioxidant properties and its ability to soothe uncomfortable nerves. Turmeric has been used for thousands of years to address inflammation and oxidative stress, as well as easing pain.

Nerve Shield® contains all the ingredients you need for effective relief. The formula addresses all three crucial steps toward restoring nerve health and supporting healthy nerve structure now and in the future. Your hands and feet will sigh with relief as invigorated blood flow delivers essential care to your most distant nerves. And you’ll  get back to enjoying your life.

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